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This is nice but not very useful to me. What would be more useful in my use case is tooling to audit my cloud accounts periodically and reclaim garbage which is

This is nice but not very useful to me. What would be more useful in my use case is tooling to audit my cloud accounts periodically and reclaim garbage which is not used or re optimize my usage (smaller instances or databases depending on usage patterns) which directly saves me money.

rumno0 2y ago
I think this is the next natural evolution - bring in usage information directly from the cloud accounts then offer right-sizing suggestions and, like you say, reclaim garbage on demand. Definitely one for the road map!
Gasp0de 2y ago
Determining accurately if we can safely scale down an instance is one of the hardest things we do, I can not think of a way to determine this in an automated fashion.
- rumno0 2y ago
  I agree - there will always be an element of engineering knowledge required. It's not dissimilar to AWS urging people to use Flex or Graviton instances, only we can decide if our workload will run appropriately!
- tamiral 2y ago
  performance testing? metrics analysis?
nathanwallace 2y ago
For runtime cost analysis, you could try Steampipe [1] with it's Powerpipe "thrifty" [2] mods. They run dozens of automatic checks across cloud providers for waste and cost saving opportunities. If you want to automatically make these changes (with optional approval in Slack) you can use the Flowpipe thrifty mods, e.g. AWS [3]. It's all open source and easy to update / extend (SQL, HCL). 1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe https://github.com/turbot/steampipe 2 - https://hub.powerpipe.io/?objectives=cost https://hub.powerpipe.io/?objectives=cost 3 - https://hub.flowpipe.io/mods/turbot/aws_thrifty https://hub.flowpipe.io/mods/turbot/aws_thrifty
- aduwah 2y ago
  Steampipe is amazing. I am using it daily for about 4 months now
eloisant 2y ago
Datadog Cloud Cost Management does that: https://www.datadoghq.com/product/cloud-cost-management/ https://www.datadoghq.com/product/cloud-cost-management/ (disclamer: I know about it because work for Datadog, I'm sure there are other competiting products that do the same)

rumno0 2y ago

I think this is the next natural evolution - bring in usage information directly from the cloud accounts then offer right-sizing suggestions and, like you say, reclaim garbage on demand. Definitely one for the road map!

Gasp0de 2y ago

Determining accurately if we can safely scale down an instance is one of the hardest things we do, I can not think of a way to determine this in an automated fashion.

rumno0 2y ago
I agree - there will always be an element of engineering knowledge required. It's not dissimilar to AWS urging people to use Flex or Graviton instances, only we can decide if our workload will run appropriately!
tamiral 2y ago
performance testing? metrics analysis?

nathanwallace 2y ago

For runtime cost analysis, you could try Steampipe [1] with it's Powerpipe "thrifty" [2] mods. They run dozens of automatic checks across cloud providers for waste and cost saving opportunities. If you want to automatically make these changes (with optional approval in Slack) you can use the Flowpipe thrifty mods, e.g. AWS [3]. It's all open source and easy to update / extend (SQL, HCL). 1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe https://github.com/turbot/steampipe 2 - https://hub.powerpipe.io/?objectives=cost https://hub.powerpipe.io/?objectives=cost 3 - https://hub.flowpipe.io/mods/turbot/aws_thrifty https://hub.flowpipe.io/mods/turbot/aws_thrifty

aduwah 2y ago
Steampipe is amazing. I am using it daily for about 4 months now

eloisant 2y ago

Datadog Cloud Cost Management does that: https://www.datadoghq.com/product/cloud-cost-management/ https://www.datadoghq.com/product/cloud-cost-management/ (disclamer: I know about it because work for Datadog, I'm sure there are other competiting products that do the same)